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Category: Featured Stories (Page 14 of 43)
There is no doubt that Steve Case, the founder of AOL and Chairman of Time Warner, is a brilliant businessman. I wish I could say the same for his book: The Third Wave.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good book. But it’s not great. There’s nothing in this book that grabbed me. The ideas were all things I’ve heard before.
Last week, I had the privilege of being invited to meet Li Keqiang (Premier of China), along with Tim Cook (CEO of Apple), Jack Ma (CEO of Alibaba), Pony Ma (CEO of Tencent) and other top business leaders.
The wildest startup at Big Salad was a Doggy PC, where dogs can play video games, study and interact with a touch screen computer. Their video demo is hilarious. Dogs must unite and unleash their power!
James Taylor, the game designer (not musician), has just launched his latest game, Special Committee, on Kickstarter. Special Committee is a tabletop game of political maneuvering, pushing agendas, and overturning the dominant party to become the most powerful player inside the Beltway.
James is an amazing designer. I had the pleasure working with him in the past on the Yumby games, and I love his creativity and dedication to the craft. Check it out for yourself!
Umair Ehsan is a Founders Space graduate. Here’s the story of how he dropped out of university to pursue his dream of intelligently automating the world.
Never lose your temper. I can think of very few times in my life where losing my temper actually helped solve a problem. More often than not, it just allowed me to vent, while making others miserable and resentful. I’ve gotten far better results by keeping calm, treating people with respect, and focusing on the solution–not the problem. As my grandfather liked to say, better to build a bridge than burn one.
Returned from Asia having caught a cold and not slept on the 12-hour flight. Met Red Cube founder at the airport, toured their hip new offices, brainstormed with them on their new media channel, then went home, worked to catch up on weeks of emails and other stuff, after which I collapsed in my own bed for the first time in 5 weeks. Home sweet home!
Slept maybe 3 or 4 hours. Got up at 4:00 am (unable to sleep) and started working again until mid-morning. Headed to Founders Space to meet the Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, and his crack team of Jews. It was strange to see all these Jews running Alaska’s most populous city. Just didn’t fit the stereotype of rough-and-ready Alaskan I’d grow up with. I’m Jewish, by the way!
Had a great time geeking out with the Alaskans, then had to go meet with our new batch of Korean startups. Helped them with their pitches and business models.
By this time I was extremely tired, but I had to give a 60 minute lecture on fund raising. After this I had a VR video interview with Black Sails. Then I gave another hour-long video interview with Terracle, an AR company.
I’ve come to understand that Buddhism can be summed up in two elegant words: “nothing matters.”
My good friend Kendrick Nguyen is the founder of Republic, which just launched!
Check it out: https://republic.co
Republic is an investment platform where everyone can invest as little as $10 in innovative startups curated by our team.
